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Police stopped from arresting Cristiano Ronaldo in alleged Las Vegas rape
Police investigating Cristiano Ronaldo over an alleged rape believed they had enough evidence to arrest and charge the soccer star -- but were scuppered by a senior official.
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Police investigating Cristiano Ronaldo over an alleged rape believed they had enough evidence to arrest and charge the soccer star — but were scuppered by a senior official.
Cops in Las Vegas — where accuser Kathryn Mayorga claimed the Manchester United ace had raped her in a hotel room — had even signed a warrant for Ronaldo’s arrest.
But Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson slapped down the detectives and declined to prosecute the case.
In a bombshell court transcript unearthed by The Sun, Mayorga’s lawyer Leslie Mark Stovall, revealed: “What happened is when that [arrest warrant] was submitted to the district attorney’s office, Mr. Wolfson declined to prosecute.
“He doesn’t say why he decided to decline and anything — any argument is just speculation. It was within the statute of limitations.
“The police believed that they had a case to prosecute for one count of sexual assault and the DA decided not to.”
Stovall made the claim in the US District Court in Las Vegas on September 21 last year, but the transcript has only now come to light.
DA Wolfson is the top prosecutor in Las Vegas, which comes under Clark County, Nevada.
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